Yaroslav Rybakov
Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov (Russian Ярослав Владимирович Рыбаков, English transcription Yaroslav Rybakov, . Born November 22, 1980 in Mogilev, Belarus ) is a Russian high jumper, the world and European champion.
He had his first major appearance in 2001, when he was defeated by only the German Martin Buss at the World Championships in Edmonton and won the silver medal. The following year at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 succeeded his revenge against Buss: Rybakov won with skipped 2.31 m the gold medal, during the German with modest 2.25 m was only seventh.
His great adversary, however, should the Swede Stefan Holm will, who was in Munich and finished third, struck at the start of the following season at the World Indoor Championships 2003 in Birmingham Rybakov, who won silver there for the first time. Only rarely Rybakov Holm defeated, so the IAAF World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo in 2003, where he won but only because of the lower number of failed attempts.
At the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon in 2004 Rybakov then came back to the silver medal behind Holm, and landed at the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens Rybakov 2.32 m in sixth place.
At the European Indoor Championships in Madrid in 2005 it was not enough even excellent 2.38 m to victory - the Swede jumped two inches higher. At the World Championships in Helsinki he won bronze behind Yuri Krymarenko (UKR ) and the same height Cubans Víctor Moya.
2006 brought Rybakov the title at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow. At the European Championships in Gothenburg he finished fifth.
At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka three athletes were on par with 2.35 m. With very few failed attempts, Donald Thomas ( BAH) won ahead of Rybakov, who won silver with his personal best, and Kyriakos Ioannou ( CYP).
Also a silver medal for Rybakov at the World Indoor Championships 2008 in Valencia.
Yaroslav Rybakov has a competition weight of 84 kg at a height of 1.96 m.
Achievements
- 2001 2001 World Championships in Edmonton: SILVER with 2.33 m behind the German Martin Buss with 2.36 m and on a par with his compatriot Vyacheslav Voronin with 2.33 m
- European Cup 2001 in Bremen: GOLD 2.28 m before Grzegorz sposob (Poland ) with 2.23 m and Martin Buss ( Germany ) with 2.19 m
- European Championships 2002 in Munich: GOLD 2.31 m in front of the two Swedes Stefan Holm 2,29 m and 2,27 m with Staffan beach
- European Indoor Championships in Vienna in 2002: BRONZE 2.30 m behind the two Sweden Staffan beach with 2,34 m and Stefan Holm 2,30 m
- European Cup 2002 in Annecy: SILVER 2.28 m behind Gregory Gabella (France) 2.30 m and above Grzegorz sposob (Poland ) with 2.25 m
- IAAF Grand Prix Final in Paris in 2002: SILVER with 2.28 m behind Stefan Holm (Sweden) with 2.31 m and above Abderrahmane Hammad (Algeria) with 2.28 m
- World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003: SILVER with 2.33 m behind the Swede Stefan Holm 2,35 m and before the Bulgarians Gennady Moroz 2.30 m
- European Cup 2003 in Florence: GOLD 2.34 m in front of the Italian Alessandro Talotti 2.30 m and 2.27 m with Poland Grzegorz sposob
- IAAF World Cup in Madrid 2002: GOLD 2.31 m in front of Mark Boswell (Canada) with 2.29 m and Ben Challenger ( UK ) with 2.20 m
- IAAF World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo in 2003: GOLD before Stefan Holm and Jamie Nieto (USA), all 2.30 m
- World Indoor Championships in Budapest in 2004: SILVER 2.32 m behind the Swede Stefan Holm 2,35 m and ahead of three other jumpers: the Czech Jaroslav Bába, the Jamaican Germaine Mason and the Romanians Stefan Vasilache, all 2.25 m
- XVIII. Summer Olympic Games in Athens 2004: Sixth 2.32 m ( height of the Siege Sweden Stefan Holm: 2.36 m )
- IAAF World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo in 2004: SILVER 2.30 m behind Stefan Holm 2.33 m and ahead of Mark Boswell (Canada), also with 2.30 m
- European Indoor Championships 2005 in Madrid: SILVER with 2.38 m behind the Swede Stefan Holm 2,40 m, ahead of his compatriot Pavel Formenko 2.32 m
- 2005 World Championships in Helsinki: BRONZE 2.29 m behind the Ukrainians Yuri Krymarenko 2.32 m and the Cubans Víctor Moya with 2.29 m
- IAAF World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo in 2005: BRONZE together with Stefan Holm behind Víctor Moya (Cuba) with 2.31 m and Vyacheslav Voronin, all 2.32 m
- World Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2006: GOLD with 2.37 m ahead of his compatriot Andrei Tere Schin with 2.35 m and 2.33 m with Sweden Linus Thörnblad
- 2007 World Championships in Osaka: SILVER behind Donald Thomas (Bahamas ) and Kyriakos Ioannou before (Cyprus ), all on 2.35 m
- 2009 World Championships in Berlin: GOLD 2.32 m before Kyriakos Ioannou (Cyprus) and Sylwester Bednarek and Raul Spank (both bronze), all on 2.32 m